Why ‘Chronology of Water’ author Lidia Yuknavitch revisits the past in ‘Reading the Waves’ The writer is the featured guest on the March 21 episode of the virtual program Bookish.

Adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir about surviving childhood sexual abuse and finding an outlet for her pain in writing, the drama also features Thora Birch, Jim Belushi and Earl Cave.

"Change is ever possible. We don't have to carry the old stories of difficulty around like a life sentence," Lidia Yuknavitch tells PEOPLE ahead of her new memoir. It's a guiding ethos for the ...